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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Pakchong and Nang Rung

After a long overnight journey, we arrived in Pakchong to visit Thailand's premier nature reserve, Khao Yai. Though in the cool season, we would avoid the blazing heat and the torrential rain, we would miss a lot of the lushness and wildlife that the rains bring. Oh well, it meant we avoided the mosquitos and leeches! We went to a Buddhist temple where there was a cave of bats and after we exited, we were fortunate enough to get to watch the entire caves population make their daily exit for food, quite a sight!

From here, we moved on to Nang Rung, farther east of both Bangkok and Pakchong, almost to the Cambodian border. Here we would find many old temples and wats, from a time when Hinduism was a major religion within Thailand. Oh and its 37 degrees here.... cool season??

bathing in the spring

spring meets the river from the mountain

load of bats in the buddha cave

Bats coming out of the bat cave, it takes about two hours for all the bats to come out

the night market in pakchong, we failed to find anything nice to eat with no animals in it

the view of the national park

taxidermy - fail

Gibbons

Jungle boobie

Sunbear marking his territory

Tommy, our guide and rambo of thailand

waterfall from the movie "The Beach" apparantly

Thai people putting sticks to support the rocks- something about their future being supported

Wild elephants of the park

Phanom Rung Historical temple

Gnarly temple art- check out the eye snatching eagle

Prasat Meuang Tam temple

T-1000 from terminator 2 obviously

Don't know what that powder does,but it looks promising

Soda the cool little dog from Wildlife Safari

....what a wonderfull phrase

Videoes of elephants and bats will come another day its late here and the owners of the hotal want us to go to bed now ...